Thursday, 28 July 2011

For over thirty years
I have lived through three
recessions and two up-turns.
The last recession is on-going.
When times improved I never gained
from the fragile spread of new wealth/debt.

The first downturn was the sharpest-
partly because I became an adult through it.
Wanting to see my world expand
when the money for growing it shrank
from where I lived was hard to grasp.

During that first recession some graffiti
appeared on the local railway bridge.
'SLIT YOUR OWN THROAT-VOTE TORY ',
they were the party reinforcing the hardship,
and the party of the representative we had elected.

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

into a self sufficient adulthood they would soon be closed.
Such maturity would limit future debt based economic growth,
and reduce the potential for commerce by multi-national companies
who use 'family values'as the gateway to mass infantilisation.

Sunday, 17 July 2011

used to be a combined belief in neighbour and deity,
for better and for worse. At it's best it worked,
in this world it was called 'The Kingdom* of Heaven'.
It had as it's reward an anti-litigious
no-claim-no-fee-win-win policy
called forgiveness and it worked.

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

is the form, that was once water-bound
and has now evolved to live on dry land.
It is a creature which now has such a nostalgia
for it's sense of loss that it needs to share
and inflict on the planet; Becoming a fish out of water.